Back in Time: Unshackling From Love

Chapter 17

As Mikayla laughed, tears streamed down her face.

Images from her previous life of being beaten, cursed at, and tortured at the mental hospital flashed before her eyes.

In the flashback, the hefty caretaker had gripped her by the hair, forcefully pulling her away and causing her only bowl of plain soup to spill.

They would even forcefully pinch her mouth when she refused to take her medication, shoving handfuls of pills down her throat.

Mikayla always thought it was the mental hospital deliberately tormenting her to please

Jerome.

Little did she know, the demonic woman from the previous life was Kylie’s relative.

So, all the misery she endured in the mental hospital was orchestrated by Kylie.

Thinking about the abuse she suffered and the torment from stomach cancer, Mikayla wished she could immediately strangle Kylie.

Why did she have to be so cruel?

Jerome, who clearly loved Kylie so much, had even sent Mikayla to the mental hospital for the former’s good.

Why wouldn’t Kylie let her go? Why did she have to harm her?

Jerome looked at Mikayla on the floor.

Although she had suggested keeping the audio call on, he still worried that something might go wrong, so he followed her up.

Unexpectedly, he witnessed Mikayla attacking someone as soon as the elevator doors opened.

She lay slumped amidst a chaotic mess of fruits, her eyes vacant, her body seemingly devoid of strength.

Though her face showed a smile, tears flowed incessantly, as if she had suffered some painful and tragic ordeal, radiating endless hatred and resentment.

Strangely, Jerome’s heart didn’t fill with anger at her madness. Instead, a dull ache

serthed within him:

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help Mikayla when he

Jerome instruct ed the woman who was standing there in a daze, “Go get the first aid kit!”

the first ald kill.

Kylie in sitting down and then walked

her arm.

and as he pulled at her arm,

a bit

What’s with this madness again?” he asked, furrowing

Her eyes began to focus, and her body

a sense

you planning to be with Kylie after the

voice was hoarse, and her tone betrayed no emotion.

furrowed brows tightened further as

someone’s life

first aid

trying to

round–faced woman approached at that moment, carrying

up, but she coldly pushed

to her feet on her own, adjusted her clothes, and

after Mikayla to find out what had happened, but at

let out a

one responsible for the disturbance, Jerome

before coming to a complete stop.

face, Kylie shook her

deeper, and it would have needed

stop the bleeding while asking, “Who was that person just now? Why

faint smile. “She might have misunderstood me.”

this, and you’re still defending her. I think we should

Agatha, please go

want to leave, but she could tell it wasn’t appropriate

someone to look

asked Kylie, “What just happened? Why did Mikayla attack